CAST Gallery

Katrina Simmons is an Adelaide based artist, writer and lecturer.  Her work draws on failed, partial or unrealised creative ideas in order to explicate the conflicting ideologies internalised by the artist in the studio.  She has written numerous catalogue essays for Adelaide artists and has published reviews in Vitamin, Realtime, and Broadsheet.  In 2006, her work was shown at the Experimental Art Foundation in Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art, an exhibition that highlighted current trends and directions in contemporary South Australian art and which is now touring regional South Australia.  Her work was also included in the national exhibition Someone shows something to someone, held at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space, and she presented a paper entitled A spectral building diamonds itself: Failure as a generative site for contemporary art practice, at the ‘Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools Conference’ in Melbourne, 2006.